Art Project Grant
Art Project Grant
"Wiley and the Hairy Man" presented by Wise Fool Shakespeare. This is a children's play that we will perform March 1-10, 2019 at Lincoln Park Middle School.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
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Our goal for Wise Fool's production of "Wiley and the Hairy Man" is to present an excellent piece of theater for children. We hope to reach a younger audience than we usually do, as well. Most children's productions Wise Fool presents are geared towards ages 8-14. "Wiley and the Hairy Man" is entertaining for that age group, as well, but is geared specifically towards children as young as 6.Wise Fool hopes to reach at least 1000 children. Box office sales will be able to tell us if we succeed. Audience comments, newspaper reviews, and word of mouth will also be measures of success that we'll look at. We will solicit audience feedback through an online survey, which will include demographic questions (so we can better gauge the makeup of our audience), Likert-type scales and open-ended questions that will give us insight into patron engagement. We will ask patrons to rate the performance using a number of metrics and ask them about their previous theater experiences (e.g., have they attended any of our shows in the past? Do they attend family productions put on by other local theater companies?). Informal assessment for children will include asking children to draw a picture of their favorite part of the production and to rate their enjoyment of the show by coloring in a star rating.
Our goal for Wise Fool's production of "Wiley and the Hairy Man" was to present an excellent piece of theater for children. We hoped to reach a younger audience than we usually do, as well. Most children's productions Wise Fool presents are geared towards ages 8-14. "Wiley and the Hairy Man" is entertaining for that age group, as well, but is geared specifically towards children as young as 6. We also hoped to reach at least 1000 children. We did reach a younger crowd of young people, but we fell very short of reaching 1000 children. There were about 400 children in attendance.
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